[tip:core/objtool] objtool: Don't report end of section error after an empty unwind hint

From: tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 06:58:42 EST


Commit-ID: 00d96180dc38ef872ac471c2d3e14b067cbd895d
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/00d96180dc38ef872ac471c2d3e14b067cbd895d
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:43:30 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:39:02 +0200

objtool: Don't report end of section error after an empty unwind hint

If asm code specifies an UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY hint, don't warn if the
section ends unexpectedly. This can happen with the xen-head.S code
because the hypercall_page is "text" but it's all zeros.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ddafe199dd8797e40e3c2777373347eba1d65572.1505764066.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/check.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index a0c518e..83f370f 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -1752,11 +1752,14 @@ static int validate_branch(struct objtool_file *file, struct instruction *first,
if (insn->dead_end)
return 0;

- insn = next_insn;
- if (!insn) {
+ if (!next_insn) {
+ if (state.cfa.base == CFI_UNDEFINED)
+ return 0;
WARN("%s: unexpected end of section", sec->name);
return 1;
}
+
+ insn = next_insn;
}

return 0;